Here is the 6th Entrepreneur sin that you could be unknowingly committing and how to overcome it!
Comparison is the thief of joy. Judge not lest you be judged.
Have you ever heard about the 6th entrepreneur sin? Not the 1st nor 2nd but 6th sin. It’s envy!
Away from all the many sins that entrepreneurs commit on a daily is one that’s eating up the very foundations onto which the ecosystem should thrive.
Take me for example. Over the last 30 days, I have cold-emailed 10k plus leads, held phones calls with 177 prospects but only closed deals with a number not exceeding the fingers on my hand. Painful, tiring and disturbing. Yet I’m not shaken. “Triple that Hakiza”, echoes the forces above. And accelerate I did!
What used to give me sleepless nights were the numbers I’d see from other entrepreneurs. I’d wonder how a competitor makes 25X my revenue yet we serve the same market, breath the same air and walk on the same earth. What were they doing right that I did wrong, I would wonder.
I grew more and more envious as I questioned what I was doing wrong. The more effort I put in, the more strained and drained I became.
It was until I met that guy over a coffee that I saw the beam of light. He had been in business for 17years, built a reliable network and mastered so many hacks that I had no idea about. He would go on to show admiration at the speed of growth I had exhibited and encouraged me to keep on.
So why was I envious ?
Because I was comparing myself to a battle tested entrepreneur who sometimes won deals by simply texting an insider. I was failing to appreciate the 2x growth and instead being envious of when I will do 25X. Comparison was stealing more than just joy. It was stealing my sense of self.
The media is making it worse. Its teaching upcoming entrepreneurs to compare themselves to others which is quite literally the most classless thing you can do, because class — real class — is knowing who you are and living your life as the fullest version of that person no matter what ‘the profits the other entrepreneur’ has reported.
Real class is something that allows you to transcend any group or social situation, to remain fully yourself no matter who you’re around or what is happening around you.
Real class is not taught. It’s modelled by experiences we go through, the efforts we put in and the genuine spirit of perseverance we endure.
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